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cepted. Nay, more; these different principles should be in 
due proportion for his well-being; for should either of them or 
the watery vehicle prove in excess, the blood will undergo cor¬ 
respondent changes, and disease result. The diseases that 
have come under my notice in the provinces have appeared to 
me to be the consequence of the introduction into the blood of 
too large a proportion of the two organic principles essentially 
leguminous; viz. legumine and caseine, known by the name of 
vegetable albumen. 
In order to make this intelligible, T subjoin the analysis, ac¬ 
cording to Davy, Brussinghault, Liebig, Payen, Dumas, and. 
Cahours, of the ordinary food of horses. 
Grain and Meadow ( Natural ) Hay. 
HAY. BLOOD. 
1. Gluten or fibrine. 1. Gluten or fibrine \ Globules 
A. Assimilative products . 3 2. Albumen. 2. Albumen J with iron. 
\ 3. Fat. 3. Fat. 
f 4. Potash, soda, lime, 4. Potash, soda, lime, mag- 
B. Salts. 3 magnesia, &c. nesia, &c. 
C. Vehicle. 
L 5. Salts of iron. 
6. Water. 
5. Salts of iron. 
6. Water. 
D. Substances destined for 
r 7. Treacle or starch. 
7. 0. 
the production of animal l 
8. Sugar. 
8. 0. 
heat and for nutrition * 
1 9. Gum. 
9* 0. 
E. Substances expelled 1 
with the excrement J 
10. Ligneous, 
cellular. 
10. 0. 
I may remark that meadow hay contains besides, a volatile 
stimulant oil, and that oats furnish a resinoid excitant principle 
residing in its husk. 
This simple table, then, shews that natural grain and hay is 
capable of furnishing to the blood, and consequently to the or¬ 
ganism, the assimilable substances which normally enter into 
its composition. 
But, is it so with the artificial grains and grasses ? Here is 
the result of the analyses of Braconnot, Dumas, Cahours, 
Lassaigne, and Clennel:— 
BLOOD. 
1. Fibrine \ Globules 
2. Albumen J with Iron 
4. Lime, Potash, Soda, 
Magnesia, &c. 
5. Salts of Iron 
6. Water 
7. 0 
8 . 0 
9. 0 
10. 0 
ARTIFICIAL GRAIN AND FODDER. 
A. Assimilative Products 
B. Salts 
C. Vehicle .... 
D. Substances destined f 
for the production of J 
animal heat and for | 
nutrition 
E. Substances expelled ( 
with the excrement ( 
10 . 
V. 
Legumine) Vegetable 
caseine / Albumen 
Fat 
Lime, Potash, Soda, 
Magnesia 
Salts of Iron 
Water 
Starch 
Sugar 
Gum 
Ligneous, 
cellular 
